291 Ill. App. 3d 495 - Simon v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 328 Ill. App. 3d 696 - Schrager v. North Community Bank (2002), 298 Ill. App. 3d 146 - Brody v. Finch University of Health Sciences/the Chicago Medical School (1998)
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 146 Ill. 2d 263 - Loyola Academy v. S & S Roof Maintenance, Inc. · 159 Ill. 2d 469 - Illinois Graphics Co. v. Nickum · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 56 Ill. 2d 22 - Barnes v. Washington
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree of kinship between the parties; the disparity in age, health, mental condition and education and business experience between the parties; and the extent to which the 'servient' party entrusted the handling of [his] business affairs to the 'dominant' party and placed trust and confidence in the 'dominant' party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Being a consensual relationship, '[t]he client must manifest [his] authorization that the attorney act on [his] behalf, and the attorney must indicate [her] acceptance of the power to act on the client's behalf.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donkle v. Lind“one party placed trust and confidence in the other so that the latter gained influence and superiority over the former”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.